skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, so we weren't talking past each other. You actually do argue that the existence of qualia is an illusion. I would argue that qualia are in fact the only thing we can be certain does exist. I won't though, because now that you've brought us back into thought-terminating cliche territory, there's little point.

> Dennett formed his position after studying neuroscience extensively, so I urge everyone to take it more seriously.

I prefer reason over credentialism, personally. All the advanced degrees and study in the world can't make a logically incoherent position correct.

The other problem with arguments from authority is that one can always find people with equal or greater credentials who take the opposing view. One of Dennett's better known opponents, for example:

> [1] In 1993, Chalmers received his PhD in philosophy and cognitive science from Indiana University Bloomington under Douglas Hofstadter, writing a doctoral thesis entitled Toward a Theory of Consciousness. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program directed by Andy Clark at Washington University in St. Louis from 1993 to 1995.

I assume this means you will give equal weight to his point of view.

Otherwise we will be forced to acknowledge that you agree with Dennett not because he's well studied, but because he agrees with you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chalmers
A lot of them aren't so much actually defending Google here but eventually show they either a) think they're just smarter than the entire legal profession, or like eth_ below just hate the idea of law/government in general.
Great idea! I guess though you'd need a new header for a website to declare what languages a page is available in, so the menu options in the browser would only show languages that are actually available? Or a new meta tag? Or maybe there is one already?
Instead of “habitat loss” I prefer to call it “starvation prevention”.
"This seems silly" is the nicest way to describe government standards that were already outdated in the 90's
Thanks! It’s much more usable now.

The drop downs still act a bit wired. It’s almost like a parallax effect.
Random Admissions Above the Bar

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/02/ra...
Minimalist Guide to AV1 Video Encoding
I too have been a State Farm customer for over 30 years, and my proof of insurance cards come with perforations.

I too would notice and care if they did not. Maybe he’s on paperless?
Management by key process indicators is such a surreal thing.

Any sane human would notice that it's pointless to go out of your way to make a completely optional interaction with your customers and do it so badly that the customer will leave unsatisfied.

The only way you get that is by building a clearly stupid AI, and subjecting people to its whims. What is a management best practice, so yeah, let's do it.
If it sanitizes anything, parameterization sanitizes the code, not the data, and has much lower impact on the outside world (because the rest of the world isn't pressured to rename things in the real world to fit arbitrary constraints in the computer).
Your house sounds a little toxic. I couldn’t tell in your post if you were positive or negative toward this, but it sounds like a denial of human emotion. Why would anyone ban crying? Sounds like the “turn it off” approach from the Book of Mormon.
I believe it was a bunch of them in a trenchcoat!
You are right. I was just reacting to the idea that anything you find on webpage is yours to use without restriction. Think about pictures of my kids on social media!

Thank you for clarifying.
When it comes to performance, ML/AI isn't "written in Python," it's "configured in Python."
No technology can guarantee 100% unlearning, and the only 100% guarantee is when the data is deleted before the model is retrained.
Legally, even 99.99% accuracy may not be acceptable, but, only 100%.
#1 sounds interesting. Any examples of this being used?
Show HN: Import Vocabulary from ChatGPT to Anki
Hey HN, I've built a tiny program designed for language learners that does two things:

1. Generates a vocabulary list of 20 words in a given language.
2. Imports those words into Anki.

The program helps remove the manual steps of looking for new words and adding them to Anki. You can see a quick demo here → https://www.loom.com/share/e2abece82d74418894d5fc2adc74451e?....

The program uses ChatGPT to generate cards and Anki-Connect to create cards in Anki.
Recent zoom mtg: Tim tells a knock-knock joke. Dan doesn't get it. Multiple people then try to explain joke to Dan. Very painful. I still can't decide if Dan was trolling the group. Because no one can be that dense, right?
Saw the move years ago. The acting was not great, but the very end was hard to swallow.

The 'hero' gets to the roof where he has a clear shot to destroy the transmitter (apparently sophisticated aliens with teleporting technology can't be bothered with simple redundancy so they have a single point of failure), but stops to ask his girlfriend if she is 'clear' even though she is standing way behind him. This gives her a chance to shoot him and almost stops him from destroying it before he dies.

Anyone watching has to roll their eyes at whoever wrote that scene.
Ancestry seems to be moving toward tiered and segmented offerings.

Ancestry bought newspaper.com and rolled it into their data but Ancestry members need to pay extra (or extra x3) to access that data.

Existing NPcom subscribers clip articles and make them available. However, I often see those clips get downsampled to the point where they're ~unreadable. It's so common I suspect Ancestry is purposefully crapping on people's good will.

But then yesterday, I followed the 'free trial' breadcrumb bait (card req) from a result and unexpectedly found an OCR of the clipping I needed. The text was NPcom's usual globawful machine-reading gibberish - but I could suss out the info I needed.

All that said, building out a free tier seems to be part of Ancestry's strategy - to bait as many people as possible to the subscriber door. There are more subscriber doors behind it but prospective users won't know that.

Meanwhile FamilySearch is free but it's one-community-tree. I (many users) make a point of working out difficult/confusing families and recording them there.

FS records are worth the cost of admission though. The existing profiles are no worse than you'll find on Ancestry (generally better).

source: 25k profiles on Ancestry, 15k on FS.
gcc really was a game changer.

Software tools used to be really expensive. I remember in the 1980's buying both Rational System's Instant-C and WATCOM-C (32-bit DOS compiler) each for many hundreds of dollars before switching to free Linux and gcc.

Instant-C was, at the time, a magical kind of product. It was basically a C interpreter that could resolve undefined symbols at runtime - run your program then write a function and continue if it was missing. You edited code by function rather than by file, so everything was incremental and instantaneous, a big contrast to the normal experience back then of kicking off a big build and practicing your juggling while it progressed..
At some point you just have to own the fact that you are who you are because of your history. An Irish dialect of English is still English and it still has that connection to the past, flag or no flag.
Very much disagree with your point about constraints. A bug existing in 10+ year old code that has never really been tested and run by four people doesn't support any point. In real life one actually checks these things, it's not that complex :)

Case in point: counting the f's in your constants took me longer than finding that constraint bug did. You would argue ULLONG_MAX would fix that, I suppose.

You're right, that's the 32-bit arm instruction, doh. In my defense, this code was written before 64-bit ARM existed!
One huge caution about this - this uses RefCell*-like semantics which means that the borrow/borrow_mut checking is not thread-safe. This is dangerous because in the docs they have examples of shared_ptr in there but using that from multiple threads would be UB - there's 0 cases where this + shared_ptr makes sense unless you transparently upgraded to an atomics-based variant. Similarly, in a thread-aware implementation you'd expect more efficient handling of locks as well (i.e. borrow / borrow_mut would just acquire a lock and return a proxy without any additional borrow checks).

The other footgun is that there's no concept of a non-owning pointer which is dangerous - there are several equally dominant conventions in C++: naked pointers might be heap allocated, it might represent an optional const&, or it might be a pointer to the stack. Ingesting naked pointers should probably require an explicit annotation instead of assuming it's a new'ed pointer.

It's a neat idea, but I suspect this particular implementation is likely to introduce more UB, not less, because of the thread-safety footguns. In a single-threaded system, the borrow checker doesn't add a huge amount. The biggest gain is of lifetime enforcement which this doesn't get you. Also because you have to construct these Vals at point of initialization of your value, it's viral. Upgrading input arguments to use this can be dangerous if dealing with pointers.

* For C++ users, RefCell is a compile-time borrow checker escape hatch to do the checking at runtime instead - you can borrow immutably as many times xor borrow once mutably - anything else is a abort.
Late 70s, I worked for a company that built embedded monitoring equipment. They'd been using the Intel 8051 coding it with assembly and had just done their first Z80 boards. I was fresh out of college and told them I could code it in C in 1/4 the time they'd been getting assembly code done. They gave the go ahead and I bought Whitesmith's cross compiler. I was able to code and test on the pdp-11s, then burn ROMs to test on the target machine. They were stunned when I requested another 4K of ROM, but went ahead. We did several devices this way before I moved on. They never went back to assembly though. Fun times.
I'm pretty liberal. I also had an experience somewhat similar to the person in this article, although not as extreme. I grew up in a very dysfunctional and unstable home, which was very unhealthy, and even so I got into a top prep school and then Harvard...

...but I dropped out of Harvard, in part because of health problems that were delayed consequences of extreme neglect and an unhealthy home life.

My take on things is this. When you are the "exception," people talk a lot about how you should Just Get a Good Education, and then you can escape all this. You may get a scholarship to a good school, but that's it. Abuse in the home? That's your problem to deal with. Parents poor and overwhelmed? Screw those parents, we're abandoning those parents, we only care about their kids, and only if they're such prodigies that they can succeed in spite of the other numerous obstacles.

Here's the thing. I've known several prodigies from challenging backgrounds who got into great schools. Many of them had a lot of problems because of physical and mental health issues caused by their upbringing and environments. Some of these problems interrupted or curtailed their educations.

By contrast, I've also known people who had safe, stable homes, and long-term affordable housing. These folks were always able to further their education. But smart, educated folks with chaotic and abusive home lives were not always able to make it to happiness and stability.

Saying education will fix all woes is a cop-out. It's a way of uplifting a few show ponies and leaving everyone else in misery. Speaking as a former show pony. If you replace "two parent household" with "safe, stable, healthy home" I agree with what he's saying. I would also add healthcare. My knowledge of calculus did not help me as a young person when I was injured and had no money for physical therapy. Only socialized medicine would have helped me. Education is great, but it's not a substitute for a functioning society with a safety net.
"Download this paper" works fine for me (without signing up). Here you go anyway: https://pdfupload.io/docs/782c5e5f
Sweden's Riksbank urges action to prevent cash from becoming obsolete
https://ferrous-systems.com/ferrocene/

This?
Fluoride is good for your teeth. Not sure what you're talking about, but it's scientifically inaccurate. Also, fluorosis is a cosmetic issue, it doesn't weaken your teeth. And it happens when you're growing your permanent teeth when your parents forget to teach you to not swallow your toothpaste. It wouldn't affect you now.

If your water is over-fluorinated, you have far bigger problems that stem from your local government.
Looks interesting but I don't see the benefits really. Still looks like a lot of labels exactly like with traefik. Why should one switch?
Of course, some of those people then do get asked to build a language, and the result is awful and ignores the last 60 years of knowledge on how to actually do that ... (yes, I have seen this)
> My speculation is that internally they have much stronger models like Q*

People used to speculate the same about Google. Everyone hypes up their “secret, too powerful to release” models. Remember the dude who was convinced that there was a sentient AI in the machine? The light of actual public release tends to expose a lot of the hype.
I prefer Ghalib to Rumi but I couldn't pinpoint exactly why. Here are some interesting modern translations: https://yagmin.com/ghalib/joy.cgi?p=1
Yes that's true, but copyright is not the only restriction about the use of data you find online. There's trademark and privacy to consider. I don't think either thing is likely to apply to dead people :)
I'm not GP, but I agree with both them and you so thought I'd chime in.

You're absolutely right that there are big omissions/holes in the Ansible docs, but I also think that using Google is not "cheating." My ideal of great documentation sounds like exactly what you would agree with: A complete and comprehensive "book" (could become a physical printed book, but needn't have to as it should be equally usable with good old-fashioned hyperlinks). It should have a logical flow, introductory sections to describe pre-requisite knowledge/concepts and things that are broadly applicable to the project as a whole. It should have a table of contents, and it should definitely have an index and comprehensive lists/tables of API details such as available field/properties, which options are valid (for enum fields), etc. Your example of Jinja filters supported by Ansible is a great one. I really miss the 90's era here where such manuals were common practice, even for things like PCs.

With that ideal described, though, I think it's important to recognize pragmatism and feasibility. Documentation takes time and money to produce. Search tools (including Google) already exist and can provide a valuable addition without spending time/effort on it, so I think they should be used. That said, I agree that it's not a good idea for doc writers to rely on that for things to be found! Table of contents, logical flow, and indexes should absolutely be thought through. If the documentation is just a bunch of random unorganized and uncatalogued pages that can only be found with a search engine, that is really bad and they should feel bad.

I think Ansible falls right in the middle there. It undoubtedly has some real glaring omissions/holes in it, but it is also not nearly the worst I've seen as well. I do dread having to go the Ansible docs though, which is an indictment against their quality, and the more I think/write about this the more I agree with you lol.
I like this concept, but worry that the space afforded in common UI (e.g. 16px tray/menubar icons) isn’t sufficient to display the added detail.

Perhaps “language symbols”, which take the idea of language flags and simplifies them into colored glyphs that render nicely at small sizes could be a solution.
> What are better alternatives to LinkedIn, for people who want to get that rare serendipitous message from a recruiter?

The only one I know of is to have a personal social network of people who know you and are directly familiar with your work. Every rare serendipitous message from a recruiter I've received resulted from a referral from someone I directly knew.

But rare is probably the correct qualifier. I have 25 years experience, I've received four, followed up on two and only one resulted in me changing jobs. None came before I had 10 years of experience. YMMV
Yes those. My family is actually among them, and guess what: our insurance premiums went down, and we're no longer being forced to pay for benefits we would never have actually received. (do you really think insurance companies were going to pay out for a natural disaster? their entire business model is refusing to pay out of they can find a way to weasel out of it. to the point they'll call themselves doctors and tell the real doctors what they can and can't do. the less mandatory insurance the better, such that the market might finally force them to be either helpful or cheap, but certainly not neither.)
“It’s the small things” has driven Apple design for decades. And it’s a cultural thing, not just the “design department”. I remember back in the mid-90s when I left Apple to work at Microsoft and realized how rare it is to have software developers who view everything through the lens of the end user experience, even if they’re working on the file system or the boot sequence.

Random example: One of the first things I asked when I got there was “why, when you turn on a Windows PC, does it start your user experience by filling the screen with scary gibberish?” That got fixed, but it took many years, partially because of all the coordination needed in the PC ecosystem to do anything, but mostly because nobody really cared all that much.
Then that is the problem that should be addressed.
My mom was obsessed with flouride in water so I actually asked my dentist about it. According to an actual health professional it is quite good for the teeth and excessive amounts only affect the appearance not structure.
Maybe gigantic monocultures have something to do with the insect decline?

I love watching the ocasional Surinamese cockroach in my garden. Even issued warnings to anyone thinking about killing them. But it's such a small scale that I don't believe I'm contributing anything useful.
There is only information. No dis or mal or contra.
The company is a contractual arrangement between people, and thus any restrictions on it is a restriction on the rights of the people who own it, i.e. the shareholders.

Being publicly traded only means that a centralized regulatory gatekeeper lifted the prohibition on people trading its securitized equity. This is a right that all companies should have by default, and not a state of affairs that should impose special restrictions on the company.
Show HN: I made AI YouTube companion to help youtubers with their videos
Hey guys,
I created my first little AI startup that helps YouTube creators create their videos faster.
My app generates AI thumbnail, title, and description for your video.
It analyzes every word said in the video and then creates content according to it.
Adrian
Trademark also doesn’t apply to facts. And if data is published on the open internet then privacy is most likely not an issue. The genealogy is already published in the open.

So I don’t think those elements are relevant to the conversation without more context.
Sometimes I find myself turning 4G off because the 3G reception is better in crowded or remote areas.
Clearly lots of people are trying but they have very strict anti-crawler measures that often trigger for me (a human) if I browse too quickly.
It is trivial to find more than sufficiently authoritative source that cover the rules that make "Chris'" and "boss'" perfectly value contracted possessives in English. [1]

However, it's English: there isn't just one rule, another rule can also be valid and might be the one you're familiar with on a day to day basis. That doesn't mean any other way to say or write the same thing is wrong, it's just a pattern you never saw. Like someone going "lol snuck isn't a real word, it's sneaked!" and then you hand them a dictionary and they learn something new about their own language.

[1] https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/media_wysiwyg/Univer...
Yeah I'm doing things the hard way, for sure! But the project grew little by little, and I'm enjoying the process.

(And it has to be said one of the reasons I'm interested is because I have a Z80-based single-board computer which runs CP/M natively which helps for testing things.)
I think "starvation deferment" is a more accurate phrase. To prevent starvation we need to address the tendency of humanity to reproduce, and to consume resources, past the limits of what we can safely and reliably sustain. Taking more and more land, and increasingly suppressing nature, to create more food on a finite Earth simply kicks the problem down the road.
According to the bugzilla its a bug that prevents full support.
Ah yes, apologies that's an important caveat I forgot to include.

Games that use anti-cheat are a mess on Linux. I don't play any of those games, and if you do then you're likely to run into some trouble with Linux-only.
It means no extra cost relative to the same car without an AM radio, I think.
I'm pretty sure you could embed a language with lifetimes in a dsl built with c++ templates. You wouldn't want to use it beyond toy programs though.
SpaceX reveals EVA suit design as Polaris Dawn mission approaches
You mean after the state stepped in a mandated the insurance company do it - which is why many insurance companies are pulling out of the state now?

And when something happens, now the taxpayers are on the hook?
Towards a Holistic Evaluation of LLMs on Factual Knowledge Recall
Technology Trends, Stella and AI
No. “AM causing interference in EVs” would be that you turn on an AM transmitter and the EV motor starts to shutter or loses power. But that is not what we are talking about. It is that you turn the EVs motor on and the AM reception becomes noisy, isn’t it?

It is not about who has been around sooner, or who is more important, but what degrades in the presence of what.
The specific way you phrased that question makes me suspect you misinterpreted this as a banning of speech. Not at all. They're removing a class of required question from application forms. “The MIT administration has advised the departments that were requiring DEI statements to stop requiring them and to stop using this kind of information. This has just recently been disclosed to the faculty, but a general announcement to the students is not planned.”

Or are you asking what a DEI statement is in academia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusi...
Corporations are property of people. They are legal structures through which their shareholders act.
It is somehow ironic that Java, the pioneering "cross-platform" solution, has virtually no decent contender in this race.

Similar for Python.
Hacker News monthly threads for “Who wants to be hired” and “Who is hiring”. That’s how I got hired for my current job (2019) and that’s how I’m hiring currently.
You’re wrong on both counts. The geology of many areas cause excess fluoride in well water without any government intervention, which can then become worse when using fluorinated toothpaste. It’s rarely a significant issue in the US, but gets far in some countries.

“These sources include drinking water with fluoride, fluoride toothpaste—especially if swallowed by young children” Ie: swallowing makes it worse but the point of fluoride in toothpaste is to be absorbed, so some will get absolutely even in those who already have issues.

https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/faqs/dental_fluorosis/index....